When we launched the Robotic Online Short Film Festival in April 2016, we were dreaming of developing a project that conveyed our passion for imagining a future where humans and machines would interact at a social level. After ten months, countless interviews, 56 short films and a trans-oceanic trip, we can say that we have almost achieved it. During the last few weeks we have been working together with members of our jury, University [...]

When ROS Film Festival, the first robotic online short film festival, started to become a reality, one of the first things we thought we had to do was talking to friends and experts who could give us their particular vision about the robots universe. They are experts from different professional spheres such as Science, Art, Communication or Culture, but they have one thing in common: their relationship to a greater or lesser extent with the [...]

Cinema has helped, from its very beginning, not only to capture real stories, but also to unleash our fantasy, introducing all kinds of mythical characters and fantastic situations. These categories include, in addition to characters from popular culture or mythology, of course, robots or automata, fictional characters product of technology. Already present in classical mythology, the first robots appeared in proper literature in the early 19th century with The Sandman (Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann, 1817), [...]

From today, Tuesday, 20th December, you can enjoy online all the short films taking part in the first edition of the Robotic Online Short Film Festival. A total of 48 works by creators from 16 different countries that share a point in common: one of the actors appearing in them is a robot. The short films can be viewed at the video channel from the festival’s website, where they are classified within the two official sections [...]

High turnout in the first edition of theRobotic Online Short Film Festival. A total of 50 short films from 16 different countries will take part in the first edition of this contest where robots become the main characters of the audiovisual works. After the submission deadline on November 20, ROS Film Festival has received a total of 56 short films on robotics, although 6 of them have not been accepted as they failed to meet the participation guidelines. Therefore, the final number of short films taking part in the contest is 50, not a negligible amount for a first edition. […]

As we have been announcing for the last few months, we will be at the International Festival of Contemporary Art of León (Guanajuato) from November 24 to December 4. We will be showing, for the first time on a big screen, a selection of the short films participating in the first edition of ROS FIlm Festival. Remember that the submission deadline is just a few days before that, on November 20. This year’s edition [...]

We went to Madrid last month to record an interview on The Adventure of Knowledge, a morning TV programme on RTVE in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, which has been on the air for more than 20 years dedicated to education and dissemination of knowledge through interviews and documentary series. The programme’s director invited us to the TV set in order to present the ROS Film Festival. If you haven’t [...]

After months of hard work from the organization of FIAC, the 19th edition of the Festival, in which ROS Film Festival is participating this year, was presented last October 21 at a press conference. An initiative with international projection which has its origins in León (Guanajuato), that comes back after a two-year break, with an edition described by the organization as one of the best ever, and that, for the moment, has already served [...]

ROS Film Festival’s team visited Sitges Festival last week, which hosted the presentation of ROS Film Festival, in an edition, number 49, dedicated to honouring the universe of Star Trek. We loved Fabricated by the American Brett Foxwell, and Stems by the British Ainslie Henderson, Une tête disparait by Franck Dion was really moving, just like Beast by the Belgian Pieter Coudyzer and we had a good laugh [...]

Robotics and artificial intelligence have always walked hand in hand in science fiction. Besides being part of history, they serve as indicators of the technological progress in the exact place and time that the author wants to bring to the audience. One of the largest and most popular science fiction universe is Star Trek, the creation of Gene Roddenberry for the TV of the sixties that conquered the big screen after converting the idea [...]